<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Erin Tracy overcame politics, shortness, indentured servitude, an eating disorder and getting hit by a car - - - (& now) dances professionally with Ballet Theatre in Lexington, Ky. - - -<P>Of course, there's a part of me that will always want to be part of American Ballet Theater, but the name of the company isn't important to me anymore. I just want to be artistically pushed and have my spirit fulfilled.'' <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/justgo/entnews/stg_docs/009177.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.pioneerplanet.com/justgo/entnews/stg_docs/009177.htm</A> <p>[This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited November 14, 2000).]

Grace, <P>I would love to read this link!<P>Unfortunately when I clicked on it the computer said "file not found". Is there something else I should do?

Hi mom2!<P>Try the link above again. It should work now.

thanks stuart - just curious - could you email me what was wrong with it? thank you.

i guess this is the "indentured servitude" that's mentioned - i've never heard a ballet company apprenticeship referred to that way before....<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>...a low-paying, low-prestige, long-hours apprenticeship with the Atlanta Ballet.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It is an inspiring story, surely - but as for the "indentured servitude" - it is apparently something that she entered into of her own volition - twas not forced upon her. <P>In that context any work done for low pay with long hours could be so named..........